MIT Professional Education announces new offerings of Online X professional course on big data
In response to success of initial offering, individuals may sign up now for fall and spring sessions of "Tackling the Challenges of Big Data"
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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Fingertip sensor gives robot unprecedented dexterity
Equipped with a novel optical sensor, a robot grasps a USB plug and inserts it into a USB port.
Toward optical chips
A promising light source for optoelectronic chips can be tuned to different frequencies.
Hacking for good
Alumni's software uses hacking tricks to catch vulnerabilities on websites before they're exploited.
Will tomorrow’s robots move like snakes?
Made completely of rubber, CSAIL team's robotic arm can slither through “pipes.”
Reducing traffic congestion, remotely
Reducing traffic congestion with wireless system
System that would wirelessly route drivers around congested roadways wins best-paper award.
Making drones more customizable
Airware’s operating system makes drones simple to build and modify for multiple applications.
Continuing the legacy: Assistive technologies at MIT
MIT students learn new technologies while making meaningful contributions to people with disabilities.
Inventor creates tiny technologies for medicine; awarded $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize
Sangeeta Bhatia combines clinical and engineering perspectives to tackle complex health challenges.
The connector
Munther Dahleh’s expertise in mathematical modeling gives him profound insight into people, and MIT.
A new way to diagnose malaria
Using magnetic fields, technique can detect parasite’s waste products in infected blood cells.
Classroom contest yields publishable results
Students’ designs for cellular-networking protocols help define the limits of protocol performance.
Want a happy worker? Let robots take control.
CSAIL study finds that human subjects prefer when robots give the orders.
East Campus welcomes new housemaster
Rob Miller, computer science professor, to serve in undergraduate residence.
CSAIL researchers among Tech Review’s annual list of top young innovators
Adib and Shah to be honored at EmTech@MIT conference next month